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This is a great question, and I'm not sure I have the answer, so let me present the case for both coaches.

Bigger for Norvell: The Wolf Pack is 2-9 and will post its worst record in more than 50 seasons if it loses to UNLV on Saturday. The Nevada fan base needs something to grab onto from this season, and a win here could give it that. Brian Polian lost his first game against UNLV (also at home), and I don't think he was ever able to regain the fans after that loss. (I heard a lot of, "Polian just doesn't get the rivalry" after that first loss and the sentiment never really went away). Casual Wolf Pack fans care more about this game than all of the others in a season combined, so losing the casual fans would be detrimental. Wolf Pack fans are used to winning this game; UNLV fans are used to losing it. Wolf Pack fans take the Fremont Cannon more personally than UNLV fans. If the Wolf Pack loses this game, the 2017 would probably be the worst year in school history.

Bigger for Sanchez: Unlike Norvell, Sanchez is not in his first season on the job. He's in year three, so more should be expected as he's had time to build his program. A win Saturday would give UNLV its fifth bowl appearance in school history. A loss Saturday would mean Sanchez is 12-24 overall with no postseason appearances and two losses in three games to the rival school. If he can't beat Nevada when the Wolf Pack is 2-9 in a rebuilding season under a first-year head coach, that's a bad sign. Sanchez is trying to build UNLV football into something more than a warmup act for the Rebels' basketball season. He needs to have success against Nevada and regularly get to bowl games to build a fan base that historically doesn't put much stock into football. If he wins this weekend, Sanchez will have a bowl appearance and two wins over Nevada in three years. That's real progress.

Verdict: Ultimately, both coaches have contracts that run through the 2021 season, so neither's job hinges on the outcome of this game. It is a big game for both, but I'd argue it's bigger for Norvell simply because Nevada fans care about this thing way more. Consider: Sanchez get an extension and raise after getting blasted at home, 45-10, by Nevada in the regular-season finale last year. He was 7-17 at the time. Could you imagine the Wolf Pack doing that? Nevada fired its coach after that game. This game is more important to Wolf Pack fans, so it's more important for Norvell to win to salvage at least something from his debut campaign.

Elijah Foster is starting games but not getting many minutes. Is it a question of him fitting the scheme or something else?

The Wolf Pack's six best players – Jordan Caroline, Caleb Martin, Cody Martin, Josh Hall, Kendall Stephens, Lindsey Drew – are guards and coaches typically play their best players the most minutes, so they've soaked up the majority of the playing time so far. I expect that trend to continue. Nevada hasn't faced a team with a legitimate big man, so there's no harm in using a five-guard lineup – the Wolf Pack considers Caroline a guard – because there's relatively no downside to going small.

Now, when the Wolf Pack actually faces a team with a big man – if that day ever comes since there are basically no centers in college basketball anymore – Elijah Foster and Darien Williams should get more minutes (Foster will be important in the UNLV game, for example, since the Rebels have 7-footer Brandon McCoy). But, the Wolf Pack is riding with its best players on the court, which makes sense. The scary thing for Mountain West teams is Nevada's closing lineup – Caroline, the Martin twins, Hall and Drew – consist of five players who all return next season. The Wolf Pack should be even better next year than it is this year.

Crystal Ball Time: Who are the starting five NEXT basketball season? How does 2018-19 team finish?

I'd guess the five I mentioned above – Caroline, the Martin twins, Hall and Drew. There's no true big man there but Caroline covers up that issue with his rebounding and aggressiveness. Assuming everybody is back next season (that should be the case, but you never know), the Wolf Pack probably starts the season in the Top 25, but we also have to see how this year goes. Nevada adds four transfers who are eligible next year (Jazz Johnson, Tre'Shawn Thurman, Corey Henson, Nisre Zouzoua) and has signed two prep kids (K.J. Hymes, Vincent Lee), plus has one more scholarship open. If Nevada lands somebody like Jordan Brown, that could be an Elite Eight team. Even without an addition like that, the 2018-19 roster will have a ton of talent. Minutes will be hard to come by. Keeping everybody happy might be difficult.

The minimum requirement to gain that distinction is a trip to the Sweet 16, which, needless to say, is very difficult. Could Nevada win two NCAA Tournament games this year? I guess, but that's awfully tough and I wouldn't predict it. Winning one NCAA Tournament game is a huge challenge, and getting a good draw, which is all luck, is key. That 2004 Wolf Pack team was legitimately one of the 10 best in the nation and would beat the 2017 team, in my opinion, thanks to its height. Who's guarding Nick Fazekas and Kevinn Pinkney? But this 2017 has a better depth of scoring talent.

4 games, 4 different leading scorers! Not a question, just love the fact they can go with whatever player is hot any given night.

The Wolf Pack's greatest strength is the fact Caroline, Cody Martin, Caleb Martin, Hall and Stephens could all put up 20 points and you wouldn't be surprised. Not many teams nationally have that depth of offensive ability. Throw in Drew and Foster and the Wolf Pack has lots of options if somebody has an off game. Caroline went 2-of-12 in the Pacific game and Nevada still scored 89 points. This team is not top heavy.

Did Butler make the right choice going to Iowa for his pro career potential?

Speaking purely from a draft perspective, no. If he stayed at Nevada, Butler would have put up another 1,300-yard rushing season and shown his ability to catch the ball. Instead, he's rushed 72 times for 328 yards and caught four passes at Iowa, with an arm injury costing him four games. He probably would have gotten an NFL combine invite if he stayed at Nevada. I doubt that happens now. But, he said his decision was about being closer to his mother, so that goal was achieved.

Who in the current recruiting class is going to be able to provide the immediate impact Wolf Pack football needs on Defense?

Expecting true freshman to have a big impact on your college football team is no way to go through life. It just rarely happens at the Group of 5 level. So, I'd instead look at the freshmen who are redshirting this season. The guys most likely to have a big impact in that group are linebackers Lamin Touray and Trevor Price and defensive tackle Dominic Peterson. Touray missed most of last year with a broken leg and has been out much of this season with a shoulder injury, so there are health questions, but he was a nice prospect before the injuries struck. Peterson is undersized (height-wise), but is 315 pounds. Chris Green, a 325-pound true freshman playing this season, and Peterson could be a nice combo.

Casteel's defenses at WVU and AZ were pretty good. His defense at Nevada not so much. Is it a matter of not having players to fit the scheme?

Jeff Casteel's defenses at West Virginia were awesome. His defenses at Arizona were not awesome. During his last three seasons at Arizona, his units fell from 62nd to 103rd to 114th in total defense and 39th to 78th to 107th in scoring defense. That's concerning. Nevada has gone from 107th in total defense (456.0) last year to 121st in total defense this year (484.7) this year and 71st in scoring defense (29.0 ppg) last year to 115th in scoring defense (35.5) this year. That also is concerning.

Now, Nevada's 2017 schedule has been more difficult and I highly doubt Casteel forgot how to coach, but the first 15 years of the résumé are a lot better than the last five. We should give Nevada another year to adjust to the defensive scheme and recruit its kind of players, but there needs to be progress next year.

Do we see any staff changes headed into Norvell’s first true offseason?

Odds are we see some changes because that's the nature of the business. I haven't heard any grumblings Norvell wants to make changes, but there's a lot of shuffling every offseason. I'd put it at 50-50.

What's Rashad Penny's spirit animal? Would you say it's a cheetah, or a Kawasaki Ninja H2R?

I'm good for one bang-on prediction a season, and I never forget to remind people on Twitter when I get it exactly right. I was close last weekend. I picked San Diego State to beat Nevada in football, 40-20. The final was 42-23. And I picked Nevada to beat Pacific in basketball, 90-72. The final was 89-74 after Pacific scored a meaningless bucket in the final seconds. I thought I might hit that one.

But, it's funny how worked up people get over my predictions. I get comments on them all the time. Before the Rhode Island game, a guy in the Lawlor Events Center bathroom told me his wife was worried I picked Rhode Island to beat Nevada. I got a lot of razzing before, during and after that game for my pick.

I get about 80 percent of my picks right, which is solid, but will be wrong sometimes. And I always pick who I think will win with one exception: I was 99 percent sure Nevada was going to lose to Iowa State in the NCAA Tournament last season, but I picked the Wolf Pack just in case they won so I could say I predicted the upset.

If you have to listen to sports talk radio, which shows would you listen to?

Sports talk radio is pretty awful. The only show I listen to is the Dan LeBatard Show on ESPN. I'll also listen to the MLB channel on Sirius XM, but that's mostly because I love baseball and not the quality of the programming. It's pretty ridiculous Reno doesn't have a daily local sports radio show. You guys would listen to me and Ryan Radtke talk at each other wouldn't you?

Yes, that makes the most sense. Cristian Solano is Nevada's backup quarterback now, so you could go with Gangi and Solano next season (with Griffin Dahn available, too) to get Cureton's redshirt back. That's what I'd do at least.

San Diego's airport is much worse than Las Vegas' airport. Gates 3-10 have zero room. Everybody is standing on top of each other. And sometimes your flight gets switched to gates 1-2 and you have to go through an entirely new security search to get into that area. Also, the airport doesn't allow flights past a certain time, so Nevada, for example, had to bus to Orange County's airport after its game last Saturday – it took about two hours – to fly home. It's awesome the airport is right in the city, but that place needs to be blown up and built again.

I have not been to Newark's airport, but it cannot be worse than San Diego's airport. On the other hand, the best airport I've been to is Baltimore-Washington International, followed by Denver's airport, which is great but way too far from downtown.

Any update/story on Brock H., master of sacks? You saw him in San Diego?

Brock Hekking was among the alums at the Wolf Pack Walk before Friday's game. I didn't get a chance to talk to him, but he was on crutches after what I was told was his fourth surgery to fix a Lisfranc injury he suffered in his first preseason in the NFL. Lisfranc fractures are tough. His NFL career is almost certainly over, so WWE should be next. I've never watched a WWE match, but would if Brock was wrestling.

How is the baseball team looking for this year? Is making NCAA Regionals a realistic goal?

Making a Regional should always be the Wolf Pack's goal, but that is likely out of reach this year. Nevada is coming off a 19-36 record and lost arguably its two best position players (Justin Bridgman and Jordan Pearce) as well as its Friday starter (Trevor Charpie) and closer (Evan McMahan). Nevada has recruited well, per the national rankings, the last three years, so it has some talent and now has to develop those guys.

Ultimately, the MW has been run by San Diego State, New Mexico and Fresno State in baseball the last five years, so Nevada is fourth on that pecking order and will probably be picked to finish fourth in the preseason poll. But, baseball is weird. Just qualify for the MW Tournament, which has a four-team field, and you have a shot.

Will Nevada’s Men’s Basketball be in top ten for all time 3 point baskets made for a season? ( spoiler alert:yes)

In NCAA history? No. In school history? Yes. It's early, but the Wolf Pack is on pace for 411 3-pointers made, assuming a 35-game schedule. Nevada set the school record with 320 3-pointers made last season. 411 is a lot more than 320.

Why doesn’t SDSU have their own football stadium? They can’t possibly have the money problems Nevada has. Can they? Even with that incredible airport?

SDSU has one more year on its lease at SDCCU Stadium, which was the home to the Chargers before they left for Los Angeles. There is supposed to be a ballot initiative next November to build a multi-use stadium for an MLS team and San Diego State football, although there are a ton of hurdles to leap before that thing would be given the OK. It's a tough situation, but I'd expect something to get eventually get done in the next 5-10 years. Until then, SDSU might have to play at Petco Park.

It's an acquired taste. Too sour for many people. I'm fine with it as it's a nice complement for the heavier things like turkey, stuffing, potatoes, etc. On its own, I'm not eating cranberries. You have to mix them all together on the same bite.

I will be doing a story on the minivan of Nevada punter Quinton Conaway during spring ball. Unfortunately, I ran out of time this fall, but I always need some good story ideas during spring practice. I've done some background research and understand that the seating chart does not leave any room for girls in the minivan. I believe this to be an issue with the design, Quinton.